Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organization Studies at the Open University Business School

excellent resource for qualitative aspects of decision making; would benefit by a more creative layout (i.e. colour, boxed examples/cases); would also be beneficial to include in future edition a concluding chapter which summarises the overarching themes of this reader

• SECTION ONE: THE ANATOMY OF DECISION-MAKINGA Perfect Failure - Irving L JanisThe Bay of Pigs Anatomy of a Fatal Business Strategy - Erhard K ValentinA Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioural Theory of the Firm - Richard M Cyert and James G MarchDecision-Making in Organizations - Susan Miller, David Hickson and David WilsonSECTION TWO: UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONSDecision-Making as a Political Process - Andrew M PettigrewThe Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality - Nils BrunssonIdeologies and Organizational ActionsThe Hospital and Its Negotiated Order - A Strauss, L Scatzman, D Ehrlich, R Bucher and M SabsinThe Practicalities of Rule Use - Don ZimmermanSECTION THREE: THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONSStrategic Management in an Enacted World - Linda Smircich and Charles StubbartThe Role of Managerial Learning and Interpretation in Strategic Persistence and Re-Orientation - Theresa K Lant, Frances J Milliken and Bipin BatraAn Empirical ExplorationThe Cognitive Perspective on Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R SchwenkThe Impact of Organizational Culture on Approaches to Organizational Problem-Solving - Paul BateSECTION FOUR: THE SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKINGOrganizational Forms - Nils Brunsson and Johan P OlsenCan We Choose Them?The Cult(ure) of the Customer - Paul Du Gay and Graeme SalamanManagerialism and Social Welfare - Janet NewmanFrom Decision to Action in Organizations - Herv[ac]e LarocheDecision-Making as a Social Representation

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organization Studies at the Open University Business School

excellent resource for qualitative aspects of decision making; would benefit by a more creative layout (i.e. colour, boxed examples/cases); would also be beneficial to include in future edition a concluding chapter which summarises the overarching themes of this reader

• SECTION ONE: THE ANATOMY OF DECISION-MAKINGA Perfect Failure - Irving L JanisThe Bay of Pigs Anatomy of a Fatal Business Strategy - Erhard K ValentinA Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioural Theory of the Firm - Richard M Cyert and James G MarchDecision-Making in Organizations - Susan Miller, David Hickson and David WilsonSECTION TWO: UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONSDecision-Making as a Political Process - Andrew M PettigrewThe Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality - Nils BrunssonIdeologies and Organizational ActionsThe Hospital and Its Negotiated Order - A Strauss, L Scatzman, D Ehrlich, R Bucher and M SabsinThe Practicalities of Rule Use - Don ZimmermanSECTION THREE: THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONSStrategic Management in an Enacted World - Linda Smircich and Charles StubbartThe Role of Managerial Learning and Interpretation in Strategic Persistence and Re-Orientation - Theresa K Lant, Frances J Milliken and Bipin BatraAn Empirical ExplorationThe Cognitive Perspective on Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R SchwenkThe Impact of Organizational Culture on Approaches to Organizational Problem-Solving - Paul BateSECTION FOUR: THE SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKINGOrganizational Forms - Nils Brunsson and Johan P OlsenCan We Choose Them?The Cult(ure) of the Customer - Paul Du Gay and Graeme SalamanManagerialism and Social Welfare - Janet NewmanFrom Decision to Action in Organizations - Herv[ac]e LarocheDecision-Making as a Social Representation

Graeme Salaman is Professor of Organization Studies at the Open University Business School

excellent resource for qualitative aspects of decision making; would benefit by a more creative layout (i.e. colour, boxed examples/cases); would also be beneficial to include in future edition a concluding chapter which summarises the overarching themes of this reader

• SECTION ONE: THE ANATOMY OF DECISION-MAKINGA Perfect Failure - Irving L JanisThe Bay of Pigs Anatomy of a Fatal Business Strategy - Erhard K ValentinA Summary of Basic Concepts in the Behavioural Theory of the Firm - Richard M Cyert and James G MarchDecision-Making in Organizations - Susan Miller, David Hickson and David WilsonSECTION TWO: UNDERSTANDING DECISION MAKING: UNDERSTANDING ORGANIZATIONSDecision-Making as a Political Process - Andrew M PettigrewThe Irrationality of Action and Action Rationality - Nils BrunssonIdeologies and Organizational ActionsThe Hospital and Its Negotiated Order - A Strauss, L Scatzman, D Ehrlich, R Bucher and M SabsinThe Practicalities of Rule Use - Don ZimmermanSECTION THREE: THINKING IN ORGANIZATIONSStrategic Management in an Enacted World - Linda Smircich and Charles StubbartThe Role of Managerial Learning and Interpretation in Strategic Persistence and Re-Orientation - Theresa K Lant, Frances J Milliken and Bipin BatraAn Empirical ExplorationThe Cognitive Perspective on Strategic Decision-Making - Charles R SchwenkThe Impact of Organizational Culture on Approaches to Organizational Problem-Solving - Paul BateSECTION FOUR: THE SOCIETAL CONTEXT OF ORGANIZATIONAL DECISION-MAKINGOrganizational Forms - Nils Brunsson and Johan P OlsenCan We Choose Them?The Cult(ure) of the Customer - Paul Du Gay and Graeme SalamanManagerialism and Social Welfare - Janet NewmanFrom Decision to Action in Organizations - Herv[ac]e LarocheDecision-Making as a Social Representation